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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which toothpaste did the Wydra's decide to use after seeing commercials?
(a) Crest.
(b) Acme.
(c) Colgate.
(d) Arm and Hammer.

2. What did Eva's teacher, Mr. Jones ask her about that only she could answer?
(a) Having short hair.
(b) Being a piano player.
(c) Being an immigrant.
(d) Living in a Communist country.

3. How did the Wydra's travel from the Canadian port city to Vancouver?
(a) By car.
(b) By train.
(c) By plane.
(d) By ship.

4. Why couldn't Eva hear herself on the radio when she was interviewed at 14 years old?
(a) She didn't know how to find the radio station.
(b) Her mother thought she was on T.V.
(c) Her family didn't own a radio.
(d) She didn't understand that she was on the radio.

5. What did Eva confide to Mrs. Steiner?
(a) That her parents fought and argued.
(b) That they had little money.
(c) That she didn't like her school.
(d) That bullies beat her up.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Eva went out with her new friends in Canada, what was the boy wearing who teased Eva and called her a "foreign student?"

2. Where was the photograph taken about a year after the Wydra's arrived in Canada?

3. What kind of food did the Wydra's have in their luggage from their trip?

4. Why was Alinka receiving more of a Jewish education in Canada than Eva?

5. What did Eva's mother mean when she said that Eva was becoming "English?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Give an example of how the Wydra's became paralyzed by choices and how they made decisions?

2. When Eva and her friends would see a foreign film in Poland, what questions would they ask about the characters in the film? How does this relate to Eva's life in Canada?

3. When Eva dreamed of staying in Poland, how did she imagine her life would have been had she stayed? What was "normal" to Eva and why did she believe that life in Poland would have been "normal?"

4. In Eva's attempt at secrecy, what role did Mrs. Steiner play? Why did Eva place her is this position? What characteristics did Mrs. Steiner have that made Eva behave differently towards her?

5. What did Eva mean when she claimed to have "no interior language?"

6. Why did Eva choose English as the language she would write in when she received her new diary?

7. How were Eva's views of communism different from her classmates?

8. When Eva and her family arrived in Canada, how did Eva view the two parts of her life?

9. Why did Eva believe that speech was a class signifier?

10. Shortly after the Wydra's arrived in Canada, Eva had a bad dream. What was it and why was it significant?

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